Re: Solaris ZFS on Linux [Was: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

Nate Diller
2006-07-31T23:25:11Z

On 7/31/06, Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> Adrian Ulrich <reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> wrote:
> > > > Great to see that Sun ships a state-of-the-art Filesystem with
> > > > Solaris... I think linux should do the same...
> > >
> > > This would be worthwhile, if only to be able to futz around in Solaris-made
> > > filesystems.
>
> > s/I think linux should do the same/I think linux should include Reiser4/
> > ;-)
>
> So ZFS isn't "state-of-the-art"?

maybe reiser4 and ZFS are. certainly, they optimize for different
behavior though

> [...]
>
> > But i'd rather like to see a Linux version of WAFL :-)
>
> WAFL is for high-turnover filesystems on RAID-5 (and assumes flash memory
> staging areas). Not your run-of-the-mill desktop...

yeah, good thing nobody tries to use linux for high-turnover servers
with RAID. pish-posh.

> > ZFS didn't really impress me:
> > The Volume-Manager is nice but the Filesystem.. well: It beats UFS
> > .. sometimes ;-)
>
> OK, ext3 + LVM it is then.
>
> > See also: http://spam.workaround.ch/dull/postmark.txt
>
> Interesting.

yeah, i hadn't seen postmark numbers on linux before. maybe mongo
isn't so biased after all

NATE